Sentence examples for half- from inspiring English sources

"half-" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is often used as a prefix to indicate that something is half of the whole or divided in half. For example, "The pie was cut into two halves."

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half-

prefix

A prefix used before brother, sister, uncle, aunt, and so forth, to indicate that the person being identified is related only through one parent, grandparent, and so forth, rather than two.

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Five and a half!

But we'll know much more after the other side goes because arguments are often one-sided like this half way through.

"We lost the game in the first half".

The trouble is, I don't know which half".

But the prime minister failed to win the support of more than half of his 303 MPs after 136 Tories rejected the measure and around 40 Tory MPs either did not vote or actively abstained.

That flight is only about half the price ($186), despite its being more than double the distance.

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Their resistance was even more admirable against Argentina, with Mora again making a couple of excellent stops before being beaten by a first-half penalty from Daniel Passarella.

Philadelphia got within 2-1 in the 36th minute with a goal by midfielder Vincent Nogueira, but the Revolution quickly responded after half-time as Nguyen scored his team-leading fifth goal.

Your son or daughter is applying for university half-way across the country, and they're wondering where they're going to live.

Speaking to the Guardian ahead of this week's half-yearly meeting of the World Bank in Washington DC, Kim said he had been impressed by the energy of the divestment campaigns on university campuses in the US, aimed at persuading investors to remove their funds from fossil fuel companies.

By half-past eight I think he had used David Cameron's name seven times – he isn't going to make independent ­decisions, but do what Cameron tells him.

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